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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Copyright Act, New York (1790) Source: Library of Congress: 1 Stat. 124 (1790). Citation: Copyright Act (1790), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: us_1790 Full title An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned Full title original language N/A Abstract The first federal copyright act. The act created for the first time a national, general copyright regime in the United States. The commentary describes the legislative history of the act, the main features of the regime it created and its close similarity to the British Statute of Anne. It concludes by briefly surveying the known information about copyright practice in the first decade of the federal regime. Bibliography Abrams Howard B. "The Historic Foundation of American Copyright Law: Exploding the Myth of Common Law Copyright." 29 Wayne Law Review 1119 (1983). Bugbee B. B. The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967. Patterson, Lyman Ray. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location New York Year 1790 Language English Source Library of Congress: 1 Stat. 124 (1790). Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to N/A Persons referred to in commentary Boudinot, Elias (1740-1821) Burke, Aedanus (1743-1802) Cadwalader, Lambert (1742-1823) Churchman, John (1753-1805) Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634) Contee, Benjamin (1755-1815) Curtis, George Ticknor (1812-1894) Hartley, Thomas (1748-1800) Huntington, Benjamin (1736-1800) Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Johnson, Thomas (1732-1819) Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron (1732-1802) Morse, Jedidiah (1761-1826) Paterson, John (1744-1808) Ramsay, David (1749-1815) Read, George (1733-1798) Sherman, Roger (1721-1793) Silvester, Peter (1734-1808) Solberg, Thorvald (1852-1949) Story, Joseph (1779-1845) Tucker, Thomas Tudor (1745-1828) Washington, George (1732-1799) Webster, Noah (1758-1843) White, Alexander (1738-1804) Places referred to America Places referred to in commentary America Charleston, South Carolina England Massachusetts New York Nottingham, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Legislation referred to U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790) Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Monopolies, 1624, 21 Jac.I, c.3 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 U.S. Constitutional Copyright Clause 1789 U.S. Patent Act 1790 U.S. Copyright Act 1790, 1 Stat. 124 (1790) U.S. Copyright Act 1802 (Amendment of 1790 Act), 2 Stat. 171 (1802) Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Pope v. Curl (1741) 2 Atk. 342 Beckford v. Hood (1798) 7 D. & E. 620 Morse v. Reid, 5 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 123 (1798) Globe Newspaper Co. v. Walker, 210 U.S. 356, 362-367 (1908) Institutions referred to U.S. Congress U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Secretary of State's Office U.S. Senate Institutions referred to in commentary Continental Congress (1774-1789) Stationers' Company U.S. Circuit Court for New York District U.S. Congress U.S. Secretary of State's Office U.S. Supreme Court Key words author/publisher relations authorship, theory of authors' remuneration books, protected subject matter deposit duration formalities importation inventors learning, the advancement of lobbying manuscript maps, protected subject matter monopoly patents, for invention penalties, paid to author(s) penalties, paid to fiscal authorities property analogies registration remedies renewal states, US Responsible editor Oren Bracha Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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